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A mentally ill person who hasn't taken his medicine is brought to a hospital emergency department and begins cursing and throwing wild punches at nurses and doctors. Is that person a patient needing firm, appropriate health care or a potential criminal who first needs to be jailed? That's the policy and legal divide that separates federal and state health agencies and front-line health care providers such as Lehigh Valley Hospital, which the Pennsylvania Department of Health recently said violated regulations by allowing its security guards to use electric stun guns on out-of-control patients. It's a gulf that pits the classic view of hospitals as places of caring and...

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A mentally ill person who hasn't taken his medicine is brought to a hospital emergency department and begins cursing and throwing wild punches at nurses and doctors. Is that person a patient needing firm, appropriate health care or a potential criminal...